Court Unanimously Cancels Coalition Candidate UPDATE

In Shot Across Bibi’s Bow High Court Unanimously Cancels Coalition Candidate for Mayor of Teveria

NOW THE WAR BETWEEN THE SUPREMES AND THE KNESSET BEGINS

A 9-judge panel of the High Court of Justice on Sunday ruled, at the end of a five-hour hearing, that the “Teveria Law” (Tiberias) will not apply in the upcoming mayoral elections in that city and the head of the caretaker committee, Boaz Yosef, a relative of former Interior Minister and Shas Chairman Aryeh Deri, will not be able to run.

The High Court ruled that the “Teveria Law” will apply only starting in the 2028 municipal elections. According to the law, the chairman of the caretaker committee, or any of its members, is allowed to run in the city the committee governs without a cooling-off period, except for this election. (Mah Nishtana, why is this election different than any other election?)

The law which the coalition recently amended was intended to prevent members of caretaker committees from running in the cities which they had been appointed to govern temporarily. On January 13, 2020, Minister Ze’ev Elkin decided to remove then-Teveria Mayor Ron Cobi and disperse the city council, replacing them with a caretaker committee.

The attorney representing the Knesset argued that “the law returns the legal situation to what it was in 2008. We find difficult the claim that what was constitutional until 2008 is suddenly unconstitutional. There is no new basic law on this matter. The Knesset should decide. In 2008, the situation called for changing the law, and the Knesset decided to change it. Now, the Knesset decides to reverse the situation.”

Supreme Court President Justice Esther Hayut replied: “The law is personal because it is tailor-made for the elections in Teveria. The law is personal in terms of its timing, it is tailored because there is one person who enters this slot. Some MKs said as much. The legal counsel for the Knesset thought that due to the very significant difficulties of changing the rules of the game and the problem of personal legislation, the law should only apply in the following elections, but the MKs decided otherwise, explicitly stating that it is required now because of Teveria.”

Justice Alex Stein, who is among the court’s more conservative members, asked: “If the head of a caretaker committee suddenly decides to run somewhere other than Teveria, does it matter?”

The AG’s representative, attorney Sharon Rotshenker, replied: “No, because the arrangement was intended to regulate a specific case. The MKs agreed that the rules of the game should not be changed during the game, they were simply wrong about when the game started. They made a mistake. Because of this, it must be determined that the law will only apply from the following elections.”

The author of the “Teveria Law,” MK Amit Halevi (Likud) on Monday sharply criticized the High Court’s ruling, telling Reshet Bet Radio: “Yesterday we saw a spectacle of the court that showed it can easily run over a law of the legislator. Don’t side with one camp, listen, discuss, don’t slap. The law was seriously debated in the Knesset, the public decided and the High Court decided that it didn’t suit them. What is illegitimate about a law that existed for 50 years in the State of Israel?”

On its face, this may be a reasoned debate between the high court and the ruling coalition, juxtaposing the candidacy of a man who has run the city well since his appointment vs. the appearance that the law which forbids caretaker committee members from seeking office in the municipality which they rescued was amended to serve a specific person.

But in reality, Sunday’s ruling was the first encounter between the Supreme Court and Netanyahu’s coalition government since the passing of the law amending the reasonability clause. The court will debate petitions against that law, as well as petitions calling to find Netanyahu incapacitated, disregarding the new scope of the incapacity law which has just been enacted.

In that context, we can consider Sunday’s decision to be Justice Hayut’s shot across the bow, telling the elected PM his protective legislation may not protect him at all.

Likud MK Yuli Edelstein, who is not a rubber stamp supporter of the judicial reform, said on Radio Kol Barama that “If the judges of the High Court of Justice reject the [amended] Reasonability clause, it is a declaration of war and I hope there will be no intervention. This is a decision that will lead to a constitutional crisis that we will not know how to get out of.’”

NEXT ON THE CHOPPING BLOCK

Full 15-Member Supreme Court Panel to Hear Petitions Against ‘Reasonableness Law’

The Supreme Court announced Monday that the hearing by the full Court is set for September 12.  That’s 2 as in TWO days before Erev Rosh Hashanah 

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Likud warns: The Court has always respected the Basic Laws until now'

The Likud published an announcement this evening (Monday) with a message to the Supreme Court ahead of the expected hearing regarding the possibility that the court may strike down the amendment to the Basic Law: The Judiciary limiting the court's ability to apply the Reasonableness Standard.

"The governments of Israel have always been careful to respect the law and the ruling of the court, and the court has always been careful to respect the Basic Laws," the party's statement reads.

"These two principles form the basis of the rule of law in Israel and of the balance between branches in any democracy. Any deviation from one of these principles will seriously damage Israeli democracy, which during these days requires calmness, dialogue, and accountability," the Likud statement continued.

The Likud's statement follows the historic announcementthat all 15 Supreme Court justices will sit on the panel which will hear and discuss the petitions against the Reasonableness Standard law which was passed a week ago.

Last week, Justice David Mintz ruled that the hearing on the seven petitions filed against the legislation will be held on September 12. However, he rejected the requests for an interim court order preventing the law from going into effect until the court rules on the petitions.

The Supreme Court has no Legal Authority to Invalidate Laws

Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu (Otzma Yehudit) harshly criticized the discussion held in the Supreme Court regarding the Tiberias Law, and expressed concern that the court will see fit to invalidate the amendments to the reasonableness standard. The so-called "Tiberias Law" allows the head of an elected committee to run in the local elections for the city in which he serves.

The changes to the reasonableness standard amended Basic Law: The Judiciary. Basic Laws are a group of laws intended, upon completion of the series, to form Israel's constitution.

Speaking to 103 FM Radio, Eliyahu said, "Everyone understands that the Supreme Court does not have the legal authority to invalidate laws. It's not as if it received that authority at some point. It's authority which it took for itself in the 90s, and also, there is still a difference between invalidating a law which is a regular law, and invalidating a Basic Law.” "Invalidating a Basic Law is something that has not yet been done here. It's true that there were discussions, it's a very very serious thing. I think it takes the law from the rule of law, which we all understand means the written word, and gives it to the rule of man. It's a very dangerous thing."

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/374920

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Well so much for the above ‘declaration'. See how the Supremes did something just as disgusting, they postponed the application of the law ahead 5 years. [i imagine they are hoping that a new govt. will be in power then, and it will deal with at that time]

https://www.jewishpress.com/news/the-courts/in-shot-across-bibis-bow-high-court-unanimously-cancels-coalition-candidate-for-mayor-of-tveria/2023/07/31/

Beit HaMikdash: What We Had & What’s To Come

We are not finished with Tisha B’Av. Since the Temple has not been built in our days what we are missing continues to foreshadow our lives.

OU Israel created a special video Beit HaMikdash: What We Had & What’s to Come to connect you to the power of Tisha B’Av. We invite you to join Rabbi Avi Berman in a visit of the Kotel tunnels, the Temple Institute and Har HaZeitim for a deep understanding of the destruction and the Geulah (redemption) for which we are longing.

A Temple Mount Moment: The Eitam Aqueduct

 

Water, water everywhere! In the Holy Temple water was necessary to constantly clean the blood of the offerings from the inner courtyard. Water was also necessary to keep the copper laver full for the daily sanctification of the hands and feet of the kohanim. And water was also necessary for the mikva'ot (ritual baths) in which the kohanim purified themselves. But from where did all this water originate? A Temple Mount Moment is the joint project of the Temple Institute and High on the Har. Temple Mount experts and co founders of High on the Har, Dr. Melissa Jane Kronfeld and Rabbi Yehuda Levi present each week fascinating facts and insights about the Temple Mount and the Holy Temple, its past, present and future! Sponsor an Episode! https://www.highonthehar.com/moment

BIGGER THAN THE SUN

And Getting Closer By The Day

I was made aware of the incoming system (and several other disturbing phenomenon) in 2000 by a family member that was in a position to know such things, thanks to his gig as a NASA engineer, DOD contractor and later as black project engineer. Found Dave in 2017. Thus far he has been spot on. See no reason to doubt him now. Dave, you're the only channel I follow for these matters. Please know you are loved and appreciated and respected. Keep up the good fight, Brother, we need you now more than ever!

Its incredible for 1 man to be able to put the pieces together. Yet Dave is able to break it down for us

They pretty much discounted Pluto from our solar system in 2006 - so they had to have confirmed the model Dave has come up with - makes so much sense to me now

Amazing stuff, thank you. I watch the sun(s) set and moon set almost every night from my property. The moon once was setting in the west near where the sun was setting, now it sets in the South between two mountain peaks, literally on the opposite side of my view from where it once did less than a month ago. We were continually watching the moon turn orange/red when it got closer to the horizon, now it is not changing color, but is not setting even close to where it did less than 3 weeks ago.

Well, my friend, you are correct, it is growing larger in our skies, but it is the Earth that is orbiting towards Nibiru, as Nibiru is orbiting down from our Sun. Nibiru will be doing a close flyby, in front of the Earth real soon, causing massive damage here on Earth, but, as it passes, it will cause the Earth's Crust to shift South-West by almost 30 degrees ... then, we will be flying right through its massive tail of debris for almost 3 days :(

Can't deny human involvement endangering Earth via HAARP or CERN, etc. One example of presumed human interference can be seen watching regular videos of Mt. Popocatepetl, with craft flying over, and then fire and smoke emanating from the volcano - as in videos provided by Mizz Jade_Eye. Appreciate your continued passion and diligence on this subject, thank you.

Damn Dave, MrMBB333 is showing this comet , and he called it a horn planet, I said it looked like the wing planet! I don’t know about that horned planet, but I do know about the Wing planet , and he said it’s got a long tail! All I know is I believe it’s the planetary system you, Dave have been showing us!!! Thank you, Dave for all you have done for all of humanity

It was coming FROM the SKY! Sounded REALLY big!

The Vilna Gaon on the Erev Rav

 The Vilna Gaon’s Words About the Erev Rav 

Adapted from sefer Even Shelaimah (of the GRA), chapter 11 (6-8)

Footnotes are from the “biur” on the bottom of the sefer, they are likkutim*

6) Grain contains three parts which get thrown away: the chaff, the straw, and the rest of its remains which are unfit for consumption. The nation of Yisrael, who is compared to grain – as is

1.  From Avraham came Yishmael, and from Yitzchok came Esav; but the two Messiahs will also come them [Avraham and Yitzchok] – one Messiah will come from Yosef, and the other Messiah

2.  However, the ‘grain’ [Yisrael] will not be totally purified until the “Erev Rav” has been sifted out from it; they [Erev Rav] represent the remaining unwanted material from the grain, and they cling strongly to the grain. They [Erev Rav] are the undesirable parts left over from Yaakov; they represent the evil powers of bittul Torah (wasting time from learning Torah) and throwing off the yoke of Heaven.

They [Erev Rav] are very attached to Yisrael, and therefore Yisrael learns from their evil deeds. They are wealthy and are arrogant because of their wealth; of them, it is stated 3 that “Ben David [Messiah] will not come until the arrogant ones among Yisrael are destroyed.”

Just as the undesirable parts of the grain cannot be separated unless the grain is first grinded well, so is it impossible to separate the Erev Rav from Yisrael without first going through the difficulties of the exile.

7) As the generations go on, the spiritual level of the generations decrease, and the Erev Rav grows stronger. For this reason, the Sages throughout all the generations have to make decrees and new rules, in order to circumvent the breaches that the Erev Rav causes. 4

8) There are five kinds of Erev Rav 5 that are in Yisrael: 1) Those who seek strife and slander on others; 2) Those who seek lusts, 3) Those who are “tzevuim” (lit. “colored ones”), fakers who are not the same on the inside as they are on the outside; 4) Those who chase after honor to make for themselves a name; 5) Those who run after money.

The worst type from all of them are those who seek strife; these are called “Amalekim.” Ben David [Messiah] will not come unless they are destroyed from the world. Arguments that are not for the sake of Heaven are caused by Erev Rav, who jump to give rulings on matters so they can gain the crown of glory.

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1 Yirmiyahu, chap. 1.

2 Tikkunei Zohar HaChadash, 36a; the two Messiahs each represent the positive commandments and the negative commandments (ibid).

3 Sanhedrin 98a

4 Tikkunei HaZohar 34a

5 In Tikkunei HaZohar 41b, it is brought: “They [Erev Rav] are identified as “Nega Ra”, “Evil Affliction;” Nega Ra stands for Nefilim, Giborim, Amalekim, Refaim, and Anakim. The Nefilim are those who seek lust...the Giborim are those who seek to gain an honorable name for themselves, even building synagogues and donating items for the Sefer Torah so that their name can be honored... Amalekim are those who are at the heads of the nation of Yisrael during the exile, and they steal from the poor Jews.... Refaim are those who slacken off from doing kindness and charity with those who learn Torah... Anakim are those who ridicule Torah scholars…

...”All of the brazen and wicked ones of the generation are reincarnations of the souls of the Erev Rav, descending from Kayin. All of the exiles, suffering, and destruction of the Temples are all because Moshe accepted the Erev Rav into the nation, thinking that they had converted earnestly….

“Yishmael and Esav are the chaff [that must get separated from the grain], while the Erev Rav are like the “yeast in the sourdough” that remains. The chametz (remaining yeast) must be burned on Erev Pesach, six hours into the day, since they [the Erev Rav] made the Golden Calf at six hours into the day. They [the Erev Rav] are worse than all the idol-worshippers of Yisrael, because Yisrael is drawn after their influence, whenever they see that the Erev Rav is enjoying success. This is the reason for the lengthiness of the exile.”

Source:  https://bilvavi.net/files/Vilna.Gaon.Erev.Rav.pdf

THE REAL COUP IS DC and Tel Aviv

Democrats promoting: Congress resolution would back anti-government protesters in Israel

Group of Democratic lawmakers advancing official congressional resolution in support of Israel's protest movement against judicial reform. (They have experience in bringing insurrection and treason)

A group of Democratic lawmakers are advancing an official congressional resolution in support of Israel's protest movement against the judicial reform, Haaretz reported.

The resolution, which would not be binding for the US government, would reflect if accepted the public opinion among Democratic Party voters, and may encourage President Joe Biden to continue his opposition to the judicial overhaul. 

This declaration of support was initiated by Jewish congresswomen Jan Schakowsky, who has been joined by a number of prominent party lawmakers, including Jerry Nadler, former chairman of the Constitution Committee in the House of Representatives, and Jamie Raskin, who led the investigation into the January 6th insurrection in Washington, according to Haaretz. Schakowsky said that the resolution in support of the protesters is intended to strengthen the public in Israel who are fighting for the shared values of Israel and the US.

"The Netanyahu government’s anti-democratic agenda threatens the very core of the special relationship between the United States and Israel," she said, expressing hope that the resolution will gain broad support in Congress and serve as a "warning sign" for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. 

The resolution is expected to win significant support across the Democratic Party. Several Jewish organizations have been promoting it, and are urging legislators to sign on, according to Haaretz. It is unclear whether the pro-Israel lobby AIPAC and the embassy in Washington will try to oppose the resolution, or encourage the opposition of Republicans in Congress.

The Biden administration has been vocal in its insistence that the judicial reform needs to be passed with broad consensus.

Last week, before the vote in the Knesset on the bill to limit the use of the reasonableness standard, Biden called on Netanyahu not to move forward with the planned vote.

JB LEADING THE CAUSE

From the perspective of Israel’s friends in the United States, “it looks like the current judicial reform proposal is becoming more divisive, not less," Biden said in a statement to Axios’ Barak Ravid.

“Given the range of threats and challenges confronting Israel right now, it doesn’t make sense for Israeli leaders to rush this — the focus should be on pulling people together and finding consensus," the President added.

Two weeks ago, Biden held a telephone conversation with Netanyahu. After that conversation, senior analyst Thomas Friedman published an opinion article in The New York Times, in which he wrote that Biden implored Netanyahu not to advance the legislation of the judicial reform without even the semblance of a national consensus.

According to Friedman, he was invited by the President to the Oval Office to "make sure that Biden’s position is crystal clear to all Israelis." Later, US National Security Council spokesman John Kirby spoke to Israel's Channel 12 News and asked about Friedman’s column.

Kirby refused to answer whether Friedman's assertion that Biden had asked Netanyahu to stop the judicial reform legislation altogether is accurate, though he added that the column was an accurate reflection of "where the President's head is."

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The unbreakable friendship has broken its (un)trustworthy connection against a duly elected government and the Jews of Eretz Yisrael.

The Viper’s fang’s grip on the Erev Rav government is tenacious and very poisonous striking dead the good and righteous of the Land

Now we are alone with our Father in Shamayim

It is time to reassess our situation and options

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Meanwhile in DC

DAY AFTER MASSIVE STORM

Bnei Brak, Jerusalem, Beit Shemesh, Modi'in Illit, and Beitar Illit UNDER CORP. SINAS HINAM!

 

UTJ MK: 'Does any other community lose power in a heat wave?'

MK Moshe Roth demands a solution for the repeated power outages that have been striking Haredi neighborhoods.

Thousands of haredi families in Bnei Brak, Jerusalem, Beit Shemesh, Modi'in Illit, and Beitar Illit had to spend this past Shabbat without electricity in extreme heat.

It was not all of Jerusalem, but only those areas deemed Haredi! This proves it was deliberate corporate sinas hinam. On the 9th of Av the Sicari burned the food supplies, in Av 5783 they attempted to burn religious Jews!

This is not the first power outage in haredi concentrations recently near or on Shabbat itself. In some places, the power outage has occurred several times, and in others, the outage lasted for long periods during the hottest parts of the day.

Despite the promises of the Israel Electric Company to address the problem, it seems that the problem is more severe and requires government intervention. Due to the repeated power outages, MK Moshe Roth (UTJ) commented today from the Knesset podium: "How does this happen again and again even though the issues have already been discussed in the Economy Committee and no one is taking care of it? 

Could it be that the haredi public is being discriminated against, and that is why the power outages specifically affected haredi areas and neighborhoods?" Roth detailed the suffering of families who were without electricity for 30 hours in extreme heat and added that, in fact, even during the speech, there was a power outage in Beitar Illit.

"After all, there is a danger to lives here, and there may be serious cases of life-threatening situations for older people or toddlers without proper air conditioning in a heat wave.”

The power outages only happened in haredi cities, so no one is talking about it. No one is interested in this when it comes to such extensive damage to the haredi public," said MK Roth.

MK Roth concluded his remarks by demanding a thorough treatment of the problems. "We need to do everything so that such mistakes do not happen again in the State of Israel."
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/374887

Does this signal “revenge” and “persecution” by corporate insurrectionists?

Any deaths in these religious areas due to “heat prostration” is on the heads of those who decided to enact this company policy; and should be caught and fired from their position, arrested and charged with ‘murder’, no matter how high up and important.

IN ABSENCE OF CLEAR POLICY PEOPLE NEED TO ACT

 

Yehonatan Pollard: 'In absence of clear policy people need to act' 

Jonathan Pollard joined Israel National News for a thought-provoking interview on the Real Talk program.

There are some things, he says, which he is still forbidden to discuss openly. "These are things that common sense says I am not allowed to discuss, particularly any material included in my case. However, fortunately, there are other sources that I can navigate people towards. Everything else - I can't be careful anymore. People might not like what I have to say, but I feel comfortable being candid."

Pollard says that his interest in Israel National News dates back to his time in prison: "My late wife, Esther, would send me a box of news about Israel, and translate anything in Hebrew, as I was not allowed any Hebrew materials. She would tell me to start with Israel National News and work my way down to Haaretz. Israel National News was with me through my entire ordeal. Once I got out, I wasn't allowed an internet computer, so I would walk to an internet store to order a coffee and download Israel National News. The people following me didn't seem to have a problem with that, and I would buy them coffee while they waited in the car outside. Now, it's the first thing I read in the morning and the last thing I read at night.”

"I've lived a few lives," Pollard says, "But the two I enjoy the most were being the husband of Esther and now the husband of Rivka."

"Esther was my teacher," Pollard remembers. "I don't think I will ever run into someone as formidable as her again. The situation she faced called for extraordinary heroism and smarts, and she was a good combination of both. She had incredible writing skills as well: she would write from the head and the heart and never needed a rough draft."

"It was scary when she went on hunger strike here, and I told her that. She was determined to push to the end, though thankfully, it did not come to that. I asked politicians, 'What kind of government do we have that allows a Jewish woman to starve herself on the streets of Jerusalem'? And they did worse than nothing - they undermined her.” "Some had the insolence to attend the period of mourning for her. I wondered what to do with them, so I asked myself how Esther would have handled it. In the end, I praised them to the point where everyone started laughing, and they got embarrassed and left. I need to conduct myself now in a way that honors her memory.” 

"The interesting thing about our relationship was that for 23 years, we had no physical relationship. I was not permitted to kiss, touch, or hug her - I tried a few times and got whacked for it. In that situation, we had to talk, really talk, and so we got to know each other really well. When I got out, we picked up where we left off, and it felt perfectly natural.” "When I got out, she was dying. Her reaction to the diagnosis was typical Esther: The doctor said six more weeks, and she said, 'We'll see what God says about that' and lived for six and a half more years.” "Her last words to me were, 'Politics is the art of compromise. You do not compromise on anything. Remember that when the politicians come for you.' Then I sat and held her and counted her breaths until there were none."

Pollard contemplates his remarriage: "My wife now, Rivka, learned about me when she was seven. She is giving me a new lease on life right now, and I'm very thankful for that. One of the last things that Esther said to me was, 'Marry her, she'll keep you on the right path.' She certainly is keeping me on the right path, and I'm grateful for that.” The return to Israel, Pollard says, did not go quite as he thought it would: "We recited Psalms as we crossed the coastline. When we landed, I saw the press waiting and told Esther, 'It was promised that there would be no press - and Bibi is out there! I didn't know he would be there. Esther told me to say, 'I'm retired now, it's on you.'"

"As I arrived, I was thinking about the day I was arrested at the Israeli embassy in Washington. I went back to the building, and I saw my flag and all the blinds in the building coming down like eyes closing. All the dreams and assumptions I had lived by had just been shattered. I felt that I had sacrificed myself for the land and people of Israel, not any government or party, and so the thing that seemed appropriate to do was to say 'I'm back, hello, and to kiss the ground.” 

Not all of the Jewish community was welcoming or supportive of Pollard's actions: "I once asked a Jewish leader what he would have done if I had walked into his office with all the evidence at my disposal and told him that there was an undeclared intelligence embargo against Israel. He looked me straight in the face and said, 'I would have excused myself for a moment and reported you to the FBI as an agent provocateur. I don't care if it's true, you are endangering our position here.'"

Pollard tells of what motivated him: "I had an uncle who was on the Voyage of the Damned (the ocean liner St. Louis, which was granted permission to sail with close to 1,000 Jews aboard escaping Nazi Germany. The passengers were refused permission to disembark by every country the ship sailed to and eventually were forced to return to Nazi Germany.) He drilled into me as I was growing up that every Jew has a responsibility to help another Jew, even at the cost of his own life. It was drilled into me - if you see a problem with another member of the community, you cannot walk away.” 

He tells of the moments he felt fear and despair: “During the entire time, from then and until the present day, the time I was scared was when Esther told me she had breast cancer, and the time ran out on our call. I had to wait eight days to learn the details of her diagnosis. I felt despair in two moments - one when I saw missiles falling on Israel in the first Gulf War, and I thought to myself, ‘I failed’. The other was when I was permitted to write to my mother as she was dying, and a week after she died, all my letters were returned to me unopened.” Pollard recounts his introduction into prison: “The warden told me I would never see the sky or breathe fresh air again. 

I told him, ‘We’ll see about that. God runs the world, not you.’ I sat down in my cell and negotiated with God, and said, ‘I can’t do this myself’. I agreed that I would do and not do a certain number of things, and he would save me. When I was brought out again seven years later, the warden was waiting for me, and I said, ‘See? God runs the world. I lost a tooth, but it was the sweetest pain I ever had.” 

“Esther told me that I had to live like a real Jew. That helped me survive twenty-three years in the general population, where people were dying left and right. You can’t live on hate alone in there - you can live a long time on hate, but eventually, you will die of an overdose or in a fight. I saw the worst and the best of humanity in there - the worst I’ll leave to the imagination, but the best was someone who gave his painkiller patch to another inmate. He faced a five-year extension of his sentence for that but said, ‘I can’t stand by, I need to help him somehow’. The charge was dropped, and every color of inmate turned out to say goodbye to him.”

Pollard has a charge for the future generation: 

“Sometimes, when you look around and see that there is no clear government policy to defend the Jewish people and the land, people need to act. 

In the absence of a clear government policy to end terror, people need to act. 

I told Israel National News, actually, in response to Rabbi Lichtenstein’s comments about ‘vigilante action’, and asked - what are people supposed to do?”

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/374883

NOW, FOR THE BAD NEWS:

 Former Governor of the Bank of Israel: "It's time to stop"

STOP WHAT?

DOES THIS MEAN THE MAJORITY ELECTED GOVERNMENT ALLOWS THE REBELS TO CONTROL AND DESTROY TORAH LIFE IN ISRAEL?

MISPLACE THE BLAME ON NETANYAHU 

FRENKEL, shame on you.

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Former Bank of Israel Governor Prof. Jacob Frenkel spoke at the protest in Tel Aviv […] It’s time to break free from the shackles of politics, it's time to stop!”

WHAT SHACKLES??

CONCLUSION:  Former Israel Bank Governor Joins Kaplan Protesters to Promote Barak’s Uprising

JPRESS DAVID ISRAEL WRITES:  Jacob Frankel, who served as Governor of the Bank of Israel from 1991 to 2000, spoke at a protest on Kaplan Street in Tel Aviv Saturday night and warned against the severe economic consequences that the “judicial coup d’état” legislation would bring on.

Before we continue, it should be noted that Frankel’s stint as bank governor included his attempt to hide the recommendation of a committee to remove the power to change interest rates from the governor and give it to a monetary committee, which would have spared millions of Israelis their current struggle with deadly ballooning mortgages care of the current bank governor.

Frankel was forced to resign during his second term and was made to return thousands of shekels he claimed as his expenses.

The former bank governor told the Kaplan protesters that the fact that eliminating the Reasonability clause by law last week despite the warnings of the economists was tantamount to crossing the Rubicon, and warned that “if the government does not come to its senses, there will be consequences, and they will hit us hard.”

Julius Caesar crossed the river Rubicon in today’s France in January 49 BCE, which was the point of no return, following which a civil war broke out in Rome. It’s a tad overdramatic if you ask me, to compare to crossing the Rubicon a vote that eliminated a privilege the Israeli courts usurped 30 years ago and used at industrial proportions to overrule government decisions regardless of the written law.

Frankel shared a conversation he had last week with investors in New York, who, he said, wondered “what happened to Israel.” He added: “What happened that within six months the State of Israel underwent such a dramatic change? We have never experienced such great destruction of value in such a short time. Not by enemies from outside – but by government policy. And all this – for what?”

It’s a little bit like the guy who set fire to his neighborhood, then barricaded all fire truck access, and finally complained at all the smoldering ruins. There was no reason on earth for the proposed change in the committee to appoint judges or the reasonability clause to cause any economic consequences whatsoever. The only reason for those was a well-planned, well-financed, and incredibly well-executed campaign to undermine the country’s economy as a means of using the judicial reform to bring down the Netanyahu government.

Judging by the ample documentation of Ehud Barak’s plans for a Bolshevik-style revolution, complete with Jewish bodies floating in the Yarkon River (Netanyahu Warns: Israel Is on the Brink of a Military Coup), Israel’s economy would have been undermined if instead of judicial reform, the government would have pushed regulations mandating vaccinations against a pandemic. Yes, folks, when Ehud Barak was lecturing Israel Air Force pilots at a 555 Forum Zoom meeting, he had in mind protests against Netanyahu’s excessive zeal in halting the coronavirus.

Frankel noted the damage that has already been done to the economy since Minister Yariv Levin’s initial presentation of his judicial reform, back in February, and the “colossal blow,” as he put it, the high-tech industry suffered. He also mentioned the plans of high-tech folks, as well as scientists and doctors, to emigrate.

“These are just the first buds,” Frankel said. “We don’t feel the real consequences yet. But if the government doesn’t come to its senses, they will come and hit us hard. And all this for what?”

Funny he should ask. As was expressed by several Likud members over the weekend, the main reason they added their votes to the unanimous vote in favor of eliminating the reasonability clause regarding government decisions had less to do with their support for the bill and a whole lot more with their conviction that if they were to surrender to the pressures coming most notably from military reservists, that would be the end of Israeli democracy as we know it. It was a military coup d’état waiting to happen, and someone had to stop it.

Now, as I expect, Netanyahu is not going to allow his justice minister to move forward with his judicial reform and has enlisted at least nine Likud MKs to help him cut down the move entirely (MK Gottlieb: Likud ‘Rebellion’ Fueled by Netanyahu to Weaken Justice Minister Levin). But this will not stop the protesters, because their target is not this or that legislation but the downfall of the right-wing government.

I’ve heard it be said over the weekend that the only reason the Lapid government collapsed had to do with some of its members’ refusal to bring in a second Arab party into the coalition. In 2022, it was too much for Gideon Sa’ar, Benny Gantz, and certainly Avigdor Liberman, to share power with nationalist and communist Arab politicians, in addition to the Muslim Brotherhood party, Ra’am.

Rest assured: next time, with the right winning its traditional 57 to 58 mandates, the Lapid coalition (it might be Gantz) would have no hesitation to add all the Arabs in the Knesset for the first truly post-Zionist Israeli government.

But they can’t move ahead with this ghoulish plan as long as the Netanyahu government is sitting pretty. They must bring it down, even at the cost of crushing Israel’s economy.

https://www.jewishpress.com/news/business-economy/former-israel-bank-governor-joins-kaplan-protesters-to-promote-baraks-uprising/2023/07/30/

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ALSO:  Must read Caroline Glick great analysis article, "Present, past and the Tenth of Av” at https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/76692515692303107/8626150456418178026

CAROLINE: Present, past and the Tenth of Av *****

 In the 18 years since the withdrawal, Gaza has been transformed from a tactical nuisance into a strategic threat. Their range covers most of Israel. Op-ed.

(JNS) The Hebrew language—the language of the Jewish people—lacks a concept of history. The closest term to history is zikharon, or “memory.” Although both concepts—history and memory—relate to past events, they relate to those events and to the nature of time itself, in entirely different ways.

The concept of history involves thinking about time in a linear fashion. Time is circular in memory. History is the study of events that happened in the past. Memory is a process of absorbing past events into the present and the future.

Memory for Jews is a collective, national concept. For instance, we remember the Exodus from Egypt not as an historical event that happened to other people 3,400 years ago. We remember it as an event that happened to our people. And the imperative of Jewish memory is not to simply learn of the events of the past. Jews are commanded to relive them, to recall them and experience the memory as if we were there, and teach it to our children so the memory will be transported into the future.

This week we marked two days of national memory. One happened 2,000 years ago. The other happened 18 years ago. The first day—the Ninth of the Jewish month of Av, or Tisha B’Av, which we marked on Thursday—is the national day of mourning for the destruction of the First and Second Temples in Jerusalem.

Friday, the Tenth of Av, is the day the government of Ariel Sharon forcibly expelled 10,000 Jews from the Gaza Strip and northern Samaria. The media, in particular, likes to overlook this day. It is mentioned in passing or with features about particular families that were expelled. Our collective memory of those events and what they teach us as a people are deliberately ignored.

For the past seven months, due to the left’s refusal to recognize the legitimacy of the right’s electoral victory and its right to carry out its plan to reform the legal system, Israel has been plunged into a deep domestic crisis. While the events of today are unprecedented in many ways, their closest parallel—or rather, antecedent—are the events that preceded the expulsions of the Tenth of Av.

In 2003, Ariel Sharon led the Likud Party to a landslide victory in the Knesset elections. Sharon’s opponent was Labor Party head Amram Mitzna. In the midst of the Palestinian Arab terror war still raging at the time, Mitzna ran on a platform of unilateral withdrawal from Gaza. Sharon, in contrast, ran on a platform opposing all withdrawals.

Sharon knew well (as most Israelis did) that a unilateral withdrawal from Gaza would be disastrous. During the elections, Sharon coined the phrase Din Netzarim k’Din Tel Aviv. Roughly translated it meant, “As goes Netzarim (the most isolated, vulnerable community in Gaza), so goes Tel Aviv.”

In December 2004, Sharon stunned the country when he announced that he was adopting Mitzna’s electoral platform. “By then end of 2005,” he declared, “there will be no Jews in Gaza.”

A means to improve Israel’s security?

What followed were eight months of domestic strife and rancor unprecedented in Israeli history—until, that is, these past seven months. Between December 2004 and August 2005, the media ran a continuous campaign of incitement and demonization of the Jews of Gaza.

Never mind that there was literally no truth whatsoever to its constant claim that the Jews of Gush Katif—the largest bloc of communities in Gaza, along the border with Egypt—were dangerous fanatics. Never mind that when the expulsions took place, fully a third of the cadets in the IDF’s male officers training course were residents of Gush Katif.

Never mind that Gush Katif farmers were the most innovative, successful farmers in the country, or that there was virtually no crime there.

The Supreme Court judges refused to go to Gaza and see the situation for themselves although repeatedly asked to do so by the residents..

For eight months, the media subjected the public to something approaching a brainwashing program. Israelis were made to believe the 8,500 Jews of Gaza were demonic, parasitic thugs who forced Israeli soldiers to die just to protect them.

With the active support of the Supreme Court led by then president Aharon Barak, the Justice Ministry issued draconian orders to quell peaceful protests and delegitimize opposition to the expulsions. Buses carrying protesters to lawful, licensed protests were interdicted by police en route to the protests and forced to turn back. More than 6,000 Israelis were arrested protesting the planned expulsions—an average of 22 per day.

As then-chief public defender Inbal Rubenstein explained in a Knesset hearing after the expulsions, the state prosecution, with the active collusion and support of Supreme Court justices, deliberately trampled the basic civil rights of protesters.

They were collectively accused with no evidence against any specific suspect provided to the court.

They were remanded to custody pending trial—for months in many cases—with no evidence of wrongdoing provided.

Minors as young as 13 were held for months in jail without indictment.

With Barak’s support, prosecutors justified their actions by saying that denying basic civil rights to protesters was necessary as a “form of deterrence,” to prevent others from joining the protests.

The expulsions and withdrawal were presented to the public as a means to improve Israel’s security. Gaza without Jews would become a new Singapore, Sharon’s top adviser Dov Weisglass insisted.

The decision to adopt Mitzna’s plan was made by Sharon and his political consultants without any consultation with the Israel Defense Forces. The obvious fact—that Sharon ran an election campaign on just months before—that surrendering Gaza to Palestinian Arab terrorists would endanger Tel Aviv was castigated as demagoguery.

In the event, Gaza became Afghanistan. Thirty days after the withdrawal, the Gazan Palestinian Arabs began their now 18-year projectile war against Israel by shooting rockets on one of the cities closest to its border, Sderot.

In the 18 years since the withdrawal, Gaza has been transformed from a tactical nuisance into a strategic threat. The Palestinian Arabs from all terror groups operating in Hamas-controlled Gaza field rockets, mortars and missiles. Their range covers most of Israel.

Israel has been compelled to fight a half-dozen mini-wars against Hamas since 2005 and carry out innumerable airstrikes. Iran has become the Palestinian Arab terror groups in Gaza’s largest state sponsor. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps supplies Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror forces with missiles, mortars and money. They, in turn, do Iran’s bidding.

Who sets the national agenda?

So, 18 years after the Tenth of Av 5765, the main question that must be answered is why? Why did Sharon order the operation? Why did the left want it so badly?

These questions speak directly to our situation today. Regarding the left, the answer was given by leading writers both before and immediately after the expulsions. And it had nothing to do with security. It had to do with the same issues at the heart of the left’s protests today.

Six weeks before the expulsions, Haaretz ran an editorial explaining their rationale.

“The disengagement of Israeli policy from its religious fuel is the real disengagement currently on the agenda. On the day after the disengagement, religious Zionism’s status will be different. The real question is not how many mortar shells will fall, or who will guard the Philadelphi Route [connecting Gaza with Egypt], or whether Palestinians will dance on the roofs of [the village] Ganei Tal. The real question is who sets the national agenda.”

In other words, Haaretz, speaking for the left, declared it was reasonable to undermine Israel’s national security to maintain the left’s power to set national policy. The best means to preserve that power, the Israeli newspaper argued, was by destroying religious Zionism through a program of expulsion and demonization.

Haaretz’s editorial board wasn’t alone. Opinion-makers from Dan Margalit and Ari Shavit to Yair Lapid jumped on the anti-religious bandwagon using their prominent positions in the media to gin up hatred for the 8,500 Jews of Gaza and their supporters.

Margalit called for the imposition of a numerus clausus against religious Zionists serving in the IDF. Strict limits, he wrote, must be placed on the number of religious Israelis permitted to serve as officers.

Lapid insisted that the Jews of Gaza weren’t his brothers and he wouldn’t have a problem going to war against them. He wrote that the expulsion was to teach the Religious Zionsts a lesson and bring them down a peg or two.

Shavit wrote the Jews of Gaza deserved no protection from the IDF because as far as he was concerned, they weren’t even Israelis.

So, for the left, religious Zionists—and regular Zionists, for that matter—were their enemy, not the Palestinian Arabs shooting their mortars at Israel. The goal of the expulsions was to defeat them in order to preserve the left’s power to dictate national policy.

And what of Sharon? The answer to the riddle of what motivated him leads us again to precisely the point we stand at today.

Just ahead of the 2003 elections, a prosecutor named Liora Glatt-Berkowitz leaked to Haaretz that Sharon and his sons were under investigation for bribery. When she was caught, Glatt-Berkowitz said she had hoped to swing the elections to the left by publishing the information.

Most of the people involved in executing the expulsion plan who weren’t part of Sharon’s inner circle agree that the bribery investigation convinced Sharon to take the step he knew would devastate Israel’s security. Sharon understood that the prosecution and the courts were dominated by hard-left ideologues. To convince them to go easy on him and his sons, he adopted their policies and helped them to destroy their enemies: his voters.

Moshe Ya’alon was IDF Chief of General Staff when Sharon announced the withdrawal and expulsion plan. Ya’alon is now one of the leaders of the left’s anti-government insurrection. But he saw things far differently in the past.

In his 2009 memoir, Ya’alon wrote, “I have no doubt Sharon’s decision derived from external considerations. When he found himself in personal distress because of the criminal investigations against him … Sharon decided to turn the tables and take a dramatic step that blatantly contradicted his worldview and didn’t jibe with his grasp of reality.”

Most historians believe that the destruction of the Second Temple wasn’t inevitable initially. The Jews couldn’t beat the Romans in a frontal battle. But they had sufficient stores of food in Jerusalem to withstand years of siege, during which they could perhaps exhaust the Romans through attrition. The destruction became inevitable, however, when a tiny group of fanatics called the Sicarii burned all the stores of food. The Sicarii wrongly believed that the Jews could defeat the Romans, but the only way to get them to do so was to leave them with no choice other than to fight. Hence, they burned the food.

The question in Israel now is who are today’s Sicarri? The left insists that the Netanyahu government is because it insists on implementing the judicial reform agenda it ran on. The right insists that the leftist elite burning the country in a bid to preserve its power and privilege protected by the judicial system are the Sicarri.

By preserving the memory of the events of the Tenth of Av 5765, we find the answer to the question regarding the Ninth of Av. Jews who want to prevent the destruction of the Third Commonwealth— the State of Israel—must remember that time and that day, and live by its lessons.

Caroline B. Glick is the senior contributing editor of Jewish News Syndicate and host of the “Caroline Glick Show” on JNS. She is also the diplomatic commentator for Israel’s Channel 14, as well as a columnist for Newsweek. Glick is the senior fellow for Middle Eastern Affairs at the Center for Security Policy in Washington and a lecturer at Israel’s College of Statesmanship

Itamar and Levin Prevented . . .

 Ben Gvir and Levin entered the room and prevented a compromise

Opposition leader Yair Lapid claimed on Saturday night that ministers Itamar Ben Gvir and Yariv Levin prevented a compromise agreement that was reached in talks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the watering down of the law to reduce the use of the reasonableness cause.

"Ben Gvir and Levin (B”H) entered the room, banged on the table - and Netanyahu surrendered," Lapid said in an interview with Kan 11 News.

Lapid claimed that the agreement in question included protection for Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara and Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai and that the goal of the agreement was to produce "a year and a half of calm" during which discussions would take place on the continuation of the legislation.

More at https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/374862

GOVERNMENT AND DEFENSE MINISTER CONDONING REAL JEWISH TERROR!

 Anarchists Caused Millions of Shekels Of Damage To Ayalon Highway

Does this not resemble the 9th of AV?

The cumulative damage wreaked by left-wing protesters on the infrastructure of the Ayalon Highway in Tel Aviv amounts to millions of shekels, and perhaps even tens of millions of shekesl, all at the expense of the public, Channel 13 Newsreported.

The anarchists not only set the asphalt on the highway on fire, but also damaged communications fibers, cameras, traffic signs, iron fences, irrigation systems, bricks, infrastructure equipment, and underground pipes.

The Ayalon Lanes Company responded to the report, saying that experts estimate that the damage could cost tens of millions of shekels to repair and replace.

WE ARE WITNESSING THE BEGINNING OF THE FINAL END DAYS OF THE EREV RAV

INSURRECTION MUST NOT BE ALLOWED

 ALL LEADERS OF THIS TREASONOUS THREAT MUST BE ARRESTED

Protest Leader: “We’ll Destroy The Economy & Bring Down The Gov’t”

Moshe Radman, one of the leaders of the left-wing protests against the government, revealed the real goals of the protests and the lines he’s willing to cross to achieve them in an interview with Calcalist last week.

The interviewer asked: “How do you overthrow a government? We’re in a democratic regime and there are no elections on the horizon.”

Radman responded: “We’re beginning to make the economic situation very difficult. You can already see that money is being taken out of Israel and we’ll soon see a move to withdraw money from the stock market. Unfortunately, this will lead to crazy inflation and an increase in interest rates and it will burden the public. People will start suffocating from their mortgages. People won’t have money to buy food at the supermarket.”

In three to four weeks you’ll see letters from senior Shin Bet and Mossad officials saying they’re retiring…and at the end, a member of the coalition will come out and say he can’t bear it any longer. The country will collapse but unfortunately, we’ll have to close our eyes and plug our noses and let them lead us there.”

Interviewer: “But it’s not one Knesset member – four, maybe five are needed.”

Radman: “Once there is one, it’s like a house of cards, more will appear. Right now there is zero.”

Interviewer: And how will the protest actually help?”

Radman: “I’ll say it again – we’ll see people withdrawing money from the stock market and even from current accounts and we’ll continue to protest on the streets on a scale that Israel has never seen before. At the same time, the security system and the public service will gradually disintegrate.”

Interviewer: Aren’t you afraid that the public will weaken and not want to take such steps?

Radman: “The public surprises me every time. We’ve been carrying out the battle for seven months and each time we’re getting more passionate. I think the public in Israel is shocked by the strength of the government’s disconnection and it understands that the government has no legitimacy to act.”

“I hope I will be able to convince everyone that the goal now is to overthrow the government because this government has signed its own delegitimization.”

OR IS THIS THE OPENING FOR MASHICH TO TAKE OVER??